Psalms 39:11

What does Psalms 39:11 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 39:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. [Selah

KJV

King James Version · 1611

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. [Selah

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity <FI>is<Fi> every man. Selah.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.

Context

v.10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

v.11This passage

v.12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hebrews 12:6

    For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

  • Job 30:30

    My skin is black, and fallethfrom me, And my bones are burned with heat.

  • Revelation 3:19

    As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

  • Job 13:28

    Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • 2 Peter 2:16

    but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.

  • Psalms 90:7

    For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.

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